Jan Pronk is president of the Society for International Development International Governing Council. He is a professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Between 1973 and 2002, he served three terms as Minister for...

Jan Pronk highlights the growing conflict potential as economic and technological forces behind globalization lead to more and more greed, an intemperate pursue of material welfare and growth, destruction in the name of renewal and progress, and a tremendous burden on the scarce physical...

Jan Pronk reflects on his high-level political engagement on climate change underlying the principles that should inform policy today, but have not been taken up adequately in the recent UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali. He takes us through the policy responses required to counter the...